relieved - Story 115363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope was plain, cream-colored, and the handwriting was a mystery. He held it up to the late afternoon sun, squinting. Then, he tore it open. The card inside was generic, a mass-produced "Best Wishes" message. But the sheer anonymity of it...

His breath hitched, and a slow, almost imperceptible smile played on his lips. His grip on the envelope loosened, and it drifted to the ground. The tightness in his chest vanished, replaced by a comfortable emptiness. He stretched his arms above his head, then began whistling a tuneless melody as he went inside to make a cup of tea.

Emotion: relieved

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 2.22 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.97

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion relieved. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 relieved stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the relieved emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the relieved vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.638
`finally`	0.606
`finalmente`	0.597
`relieved`	0.561
`enfin`	0.546

Suppressed:

`l`	-0.443
`:(`	-0.439
`😣`	-0.429
`S`	-0.388
`😖`	-0.385